How to apply security Patches in Magento 2

Ecommerce security is a must and it should be maintained over a time to protect customer information and data from cybercriminals and frauds. The most cybersecurity threats include phishing attacks, hacking, credit card fraud, data errors or unprotected online services. For an ecommerce business, poor security management is the greatest cause of risk for online retailers.

And to prevent this causes for the Magento store owner, Magento Development team is working really hard by releasing various patches, security updates and bug fixes. By installing this updates, the store owner can ensure levels of security and recently Magento has Improved Security with reCAPTCHA and Two-Factor Authentication by giving them in the same box.

But how you can install this Security patches to your Magento 2 store? Here are the easy steps to install the security patch in less than minutes.

Recently, there are two patches released for Magento CE 2.2.5.MAGETWO-93083: This patch provides performance optimization for retrieving product attributes in Magento 2.2.5MAGETWO-93036: This patch provides a fix for problems that merchants experienced when trying to change a storefront applied theme in Magento 2.2.4 or 2.2.5.

Note: Merchants who are running Magento 2.2.4 should upgrade to 2.2.5 and then apply this patch.
First, open your command line application and navigate to your project directory. Now you need to add the cweagans/composer-patches plugin to the composer.json file.

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composer require cweagans/composer-patches

Edit the composer.json file and add the following section to specify:Module: “magento/module-payment”Title: “MAGETWO-56934: Checkout page freezes when ordering with Authorize.net with invalid credit card”Path to patch: “patches/composer/github-issue-6474.diff”

Apply the patch. Use the -v option only if you want to see debugging information.

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composer-vinstall

Update the composer.lock file. The lock file tracks which patches have been applied to each Composer package in an object.

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composer update--lock

You are done, you have successfully installed security patch inside your Magento 2 store. You can use this method to apply security Patches in Magento 2.
If you are facing any issue while creating a patch file for Magento 2 simply comment down below we will assist you asap.
Lastly, smash that stars if this method for you.
Happy Patching.

How to apply security Patches in Magento 2 2018-09-17T16:06:59+00:00 2018-10-26T17:40:04+00:00magecomp